morning after christmas. people make a point to see this painting in person at some point during their lifetimes, right? the vividness of the color in this picture is part of what is so striking for this. for us as a country this ises a close as we get to ancient history. this is the founding of the united states of america. when it comes to the historical record it s an interesting thing. the further you go back the more likely it is there is vivid color in the portrayals of what happened, a really, really long time ago. the history that we have before cameras, the history people had to paint in order to remember, that history comes to us in vivid color. whether it was a painting of a scene like washington crossing the delaware or portraits, where painters picked up a brush and the subject sitting for the portrait sat as still as he or she could and the great figures of our history presented
make history. if you are a regular person and you find yourself in the middle of something where you realize that what you do is really going to make when you realize that you personally are about to become an important part of the historical record, how do you handle that? how do you comport yourself? how do you behave? when we think of the historical record, we not only think of famous people in history, we also think of the drama of how history is presented. like washington crossing the delaware. our first president when he was still just a heroic revolutionary general. george washington making that dramatic dangerous charge across the icy delaware river, crossing the delaware to the sleeping british forces. morning after christmas. people make a point to see this painting in person at some point during their lifetimes, right? the vividness of the color in this picture is part of what is
dramatic dangerous charge across the icy delaware river, crossing the delaware to the sleeping british forces. morning after christmas. people make a point to see this painting in person at some point during their lifetimes, right? the vividness of the color in this picture is part of what is so striking for this. for us as a country this is as close as we get to ancient history. this is the founding of the united states of america. when it comes to the historical record, it s an interesting thing. the further you go back, the more likely it is there is vivid color in the portrayals of what happened, a really, really long time ago. the history that we have before cameras, the history people had to paint in order to remember, that history comes to us in vivid color. whether it was a painting of a scene like washington crossing the delaware or portraits, where painters picked up a brush and the subject sitting for the
was traumatized. he put the negatives away. he didn t do anything with them. he put them in storage. he later retired to new zealand and in his death in 2005 in his daughter in looking through the effects found this box labeled kennedy 1963 and pulled out these pictures. this is such a gift for everyone. the photos are simply amazing. can you talk about the photos? they are really striking. i mean i know we at time when we heard about them we thought surely we have seen everything there is to see from this day. we know there is a film by heart. we have seen all the images. they ve been the focus of films and investigations over 50 years. but there are something about the vividness of these pictures, the closeness, the vitality of the president and his wife and the vitality of the crowd. you can see people there with cameras themselves taking pictures, people with babies and young children. just excited to be out on the sunny day and seeing the president. it just reminds you of how
you anything about whether it was self-defense or whether it was murder, but it gives a vividness that the prosecution wants and the jury won t forget. mark, the defense really didn t have much to ask this police sergeant. what s the thinking when there s very little cross-examination? is it just that not a lot to dispute or just to get the person off the stand? jeff just said it. the prosecution wasn t proving anything. this was an emotional ploy to get in this to deal with stuff that has absolutely nothing to do with the evidence. the only part of this case where they dealt with the evidence is when mark o mara surgery dismantled that witness who had the ah-ha memory today, and you know, when you introduce this segment where you said that they ve been complaining about it all along, i frankly had never seen the hide the ball nature of these prosecutors in this case has been astonishing,